Latvia travel stories

Bicycle Tour: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia

Poland and the Baltic states have not yet been discovered as a tourism destination, so we decided to discover the place for ourselves before the inevitable hordes of German package tourists do. We ...

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Route in China (LATVIA)

Riga I had been turned away at the road border for lack of a visa but got through on the night train with the required stamp in my passport. I found a nice room for 8.60$US at the Saulite Hote...

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Latvia

For most outsiders the three Baltic states -- Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania -- are completely fungible, if they are distinguished at all. In the same vein one might say that all 50 US states are th...

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Scandinavia&Eastern Europe

From mid-June until late July of 1992 I traveled through Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and the northeast corner of the former Soviet Union. The pretext for the trip was two computer conferences being...

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